Biographical improvisations BLACK-WHITE

"Black - White" is a play created using the unique "Atviras ratas" method, continuing the tradition of the biographical improvisations "Atviras ratas" and "Lietaus žemė," which have become the theater's calling cards. This play features the biographical stories of a generation born and raised during the Soviet era that experienced the Sąjūdis period, encoding the choices and experiences of people who lived through a turning point in the epoch.

Life during the Soviet occupation matured people with vastly different biographies and worldviews: some grew up with fear and learned to adapt, while others, conversely, were nurtured by a desire to resist the system and a wish to believe that the seemingly indestructible regime would come to an end. The Sąjūdis and the subsequent Independence became for this generation a period not only of political change but also of individual choices for everyone. Passive observers, fighters willing to risk their own safety and that of their loved ones, skeptics – all of them, guided by their convictions, found their own place in history. "Black - White" directs an open and personal gaze at this place, and thirty years later, with pivotal historical turning points maturing again at arm's length, the play's creative team seeks to talk about how the choices of different people formed and continue to form the society in which we live.

Premiere September 22, 2020, at 6:30 PM at the Arts Printing House (Vilnius).

The play is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.